Re: SVGATextMode?
Also works great for me too!
I had no problems setting it up, although I was a bit scared the first
time I ran the program as it talked about what to do if you lose or can't
see any text. I'm using SVGATextMode with the S3 Trio64 video chip set.
Matthew
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> This (s. below at ~~~) is definitly wrong. SVGATextMode does not only
> increase the number of lines on the screen. Setting kernel vidmode
> results only in 80x25, 80x28 and 80x50 modes. There is no gain for
> your eyes in that, but:
> * With SVGATextMode you get all out of the expensive modern video cards. The
> old EGA modes work
> - at a low refresh rate, with SVGATextmode you can increase the refresh
> rate to whatever your card supports.
> - with the same font, so your characters get smaller and smaller in higher
> modes, with SVGATextMode you can set the font size as you like (if you
> have the consoilefonts installed).
> - with 80 chars per line. With SVGATextMode you can built your *own* modes.
> With a little knowledge (see docs in /usr/doc/svgatextmode) you can
> create the mode *you* like. Try 50*15 (if you have bad eyes :-).
> So you can get the most out of your monitor and video card. I use S100x37
> (an enriched 100x37) mode with 9x16 font on a 15" Monitor at horizontal scan
> of 56.5 kHz and a vertical scan of 84 Hz (!) (pixel clock 65.05MHz) and it
> is really smooth.
>
> To the question of documentation: READ THE DOCS, and do it carefully. You
> could crash something if you do wrong! SVGATextMode does not autotest your
> card, so try modes at lesser refresh rate first. If you have a special
> question, mail me your problem and spec. of card and mon (you have to know
> your card, clock chip, RAMDAC, refresh rates of your monitor...).
>
> If you get it working, it works just fine, believe me.
>
> Marcus.
>
> Thought writes:
> >
> > Why do you want to run SVGATextMode anyway? I ran it once and it was more
> > trouble than it's worth. The only good of it is to make more lines on the
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > screen, and you can set your kernel vidmode to EXT for that.... (50 line
> ~~~~~~~
> > mode)
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > where to find a good HOWTO or FAQ for SVGATextMode? I have read the
> > > manpages and found them very unintelligible and userunfriendly. Has
> > > anyone running a S3 Graphics 2001 (Stealth Dram 64) running with it
> > > and can mail me his TextConfig file to have a look at it?
> > >
> > > Thanks....bjoern
> > >
> > >
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